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Altacarry Head, Rathlin Island.

Survey number: 550 Event number: 19850830/03 Date: 1985-08-30 GPS: 55.30633,-6.17650 [ View map ]

Site Description: Slight boulder slope with cobble/pebble mix and some gravel between. Kelp and red algae dominant on top of boulders.

Species list (65 species recorded)

PORIFERA	ANNELIDA	MOLLUSCA	Electra pilosa	Pyura tessellata	Kallymenia reniformis	Cryptopleura ramosa
Phorbas fictitius	Alentia gelatinosa	Diodora graeca	Parasmittina trispinosa	PISCES	Phyllophora pseudoceranoides	Delesseria sanguinea
Halichondria panicea	Harmothoe extenuata	Steromphala cineraria	ECHINODERMATA	Myoxocephalus scorpius	Schottera nicaeensis	Nitophyllum punctatum
Aplysilla rosea	Pomatoceros triqueter	Calliostoma zizyphinum	Henricia oculata	RHODOPHYTA	Sphaerococcus coronopifolius	Phycodrys rubens
Aplysilla sulfurea	Spirorbis sp.	Trivia arctica	Asterias rubens	Bonnemaisonia asparagoides	Plocamium cartilagineum	Brongniartella byssoides
CNIDARIA	CRUSTACEA	Hinia (Hima) incrassata	Ophiothrix fragilis	Bonnemaisonia intricata	Lomentaria orcadensis	CHROMOPHYTA
Tubularia indivisa	Pandalus montagui	Pododesmus patelliformis	Echinus esculentus	Schmitzia hiscockiana	Rhodymenia ardissonei	Cutleria
Diphasia rosacea	Galathea nexa	BRYOZOA	TUNICATA	Rhodophyllis divaricata	Compsothamnion thuyoides	Dictyota dichotoma
Obelia geniculata	Pisidia longicornis	Crisia eburnea	Ascidia conchilega	Rhodophyllis werneri	Halurus flosculosus	Desmarestia dresnayi
Actinothoe sphyrodeta	Cancer pagurus	Alcyonidium diaphanum	Ascidia mentula	Halarachnion ligulatum	Pterothamnion plumula	Laminaria hyperborea
Caryophyllia smithii	Xantho pilipes	Membranipora membranacea	Pyura microcosmus	Metacallophyllis laciniata	Apoglossum ruscifolium

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